Poem: When the Crows Worshiped Man

Illustration by Luis Alvarez

They erected monuments of cedar,birch, and twine in the name of thee.They conjugated in the hollowof tree stumps. Offered worms and spittleto the altar. Only those who repented wereworthy. They sacrificed hatchlings,while crows cawed testimonials of faithon soap-boxes, and blessed the murderthat gathered with circumcised wings.